University Of Virginia Suspends All Pledging, Gives Initiation Deadline

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Now, for 90% of the UVA fraternities (ie. the responsible ones), things should move along swimmingly in the process of initiating their pledges by Saturday evening. For the other 10%, though, they might react with an undesired “challenge accepted” approach to an accelerated hell week, much to the chagrin of their spring pledges.

The University of Virginia has ordered all fraternities to end their new-member pledge periods by 6 p.m. Saturday or face the prospect of losing official university recognition.

The move comes as one fraternity is under investigation “after reports of inappropriate behavior,” and more investigations are poised to begin. Officials said the deadline isn’t tied to any allegations of criminal behavior.

Cramming a week’s worth of standard hell week hazing into a couple nights (depending on when this was announced) could prove to be counterproductive in the school’s pursuit for a haze-free Greek community. Remember, this is the same fraternity system that hospitalized a pledge in 2011 for sodium poisoning. Fucking salt, man. Who knew such a thing was even possible?

In 2011, a UVa fraternity pledge was hospitalized for sodium imbalance after consuming what one fraternity brother described as a “traditional” pledge meal of dog food, matzo balls and gefilte fish, then drank 12 to 18 ounces of soy sauce, according to court documents.

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It’s like they don’t realize their authority over Greek Life is pretty tentative. You turn in a paper to the school that says everyone’s initiated, give ’em a little proof, then haze the ever loving shit out of them during the real hell week for having to go through all that bullshit, then do ritual (real) initiation when you’re good and ready. Problem solved.

Funnily enough, the house on the right of your picture (Kappa Sig) is who is responsible for this, at least from what I’ve been told. They apparently had to hospitalize several pledges that they beat up. So, thanks a lot guys.

Made some calls. No one is off campus and no one is facing criminal charges. There are several (4 or 5 depending on who I ask) chapters facing investigation from the school, but as of right now no one has been found guilty or sanctioned.

Yeah you’re right I think that was just the rumor mill going out of control. The new things I’m hearing are that Chi Phi is going to be gone, just flat out kicked off, next year and that St. Elmo’s Hall (Delta Phi for non-UVA students) is under criminal investigation.

This is just so the bureaucratic idiots who lead this school (and every goddamn college in the country) can pat themselves on the back and pretend like they did their job stopping hazing. Any house that is worth a dime will tell the university that they “stopped pledging” and then proceed as they always do. These bumbling idiots think they can change hundreds of years of tradition, well they can fuck themselves.